Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 1, 1955

¶Regardless of advertising claims, it is impossible so far to get
all the caffeine out of coffee, reported the A.M.A.'s chemical
laboratory. A cup of regular "decaffeinated" coffee still contains
about one-third as much caffeine as the straight Java, but instant
coffee can be decaffeinated to one-eighth of normal.

¶ With a weather
eye on next year's March of Dimes, President Basil O'Connor of the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced research grants
totaling $1,652,741, said pointedly: "The fight against polio is not
over," even though the development of Salk vaccine indicates "the...